Dakota Jackson is an American furniture designer best known for his Dakota Jackson furniture line. He was a magician’s son, and by the time he was six, he became a professional magician. He performed in public until his early 20s.Read More →
Thomas Molesworth transformed rustic wood, leather and Western imagery into a distinctive furniture style created for ranches, hotels and private interiors.Read More →
Ray Komai was a Japanese American; he was a graphic, industrial and interior designer. He studied in Los Angeles at the Art Center College.
He settled in New York in 1944, where he worked in advertising and set up a graphic design and advertising office (with Carter Winter). J.G. Furniture created Komai’s 1949 moulded plywood chair with a split seat and bent metal legs. They produced his other designs of chairs, tables and upholstered seating as well.Read More →
He set up his architecture practice in New York in 1905 and, after visiting the 1925 Paris ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes.’ He began offering interior design services. In 1931, he became a professor of interior architecture at New York University. He sold his own and imported textiles and furniture and Maurice Heaton’s glassware in the gallery he established.Read More →
Candace Wheeler, a pioneering 19th century interior designer, overcame societal norms to teach women about home comfort. Her artistry and influence endure.Read More →
Richard Josef Neutra (1892 – 1970) was an Austrian American artist and designer. He was born in Vienna and lived in Los Angeles and southern California for much of his life.Read More →
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 – 1907) Irish American sculptorRead More →
Michael Graves was a prominent American architect and designer, known for his Post-Modern buildings and influential furniture designs, significantly impacting architecture and design until his death in 2015.Read More →
Alexander Girard (1907-1993) was a versatile designer known for his work with Herman Miller, influence of folk art, and diverse architectural projects.Read More →
He worked as an engineer in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1919, and as a draftsperson and engineer in West Coast logging camps from 1919 to 23; from 1923 to 1930, he was active in New York, sketching for the National Police Gazette 1925—26; in 1926, he travelled to England and Paris, where he produced his 1927—28 miniature circus and worked on wood sculpture; was best known for his mobiles,’ hanging sculptures whose amorphic and bio His linear, wiry images were most likely influenced by Joan Miro and Paul Klee. Read More →